I don't know what got into me this morning, but I managed to do a bunch of dusting, then vacuumed most of the house, including the swarm of dead wasps on the front porch. Bit by bit I eventually get the tidying done. I even did a big load of wash.

Feeling totally virtuous, I went to Arby's for lunch and reading Dead Until Dark, by Charlaine Harris. I'm about a third of the way through. Next stop was the gas station. The Easter closure of the Sam's Club gas station meant that today the little gas pump lit up on my dashboard. There would not have been enough gas for even a one way trip to work tomorrow.

Next stop on my IU afternoon was the bank to make a deposit. (One of these days I'll get around to having these checks direct deposited too.) Then, a stop at Walgreen's to pick up a couple of prescriptions, except that only one was ready and their computer was being ornery and they couldn't check the other one.

Finally made it to PJ's, just as the rain really let loose. This was the first time I had tried to manage cane, umbrella, coffee cup, and little tote bag. I made it with minimum wetness to anything but the umbrella and the soles of my shoes.

My timing was perfect--just as I got there the guy delivered this week's Gambit Weekly, an "alternative" newspaper.

When I finally got home I had to look twice at the clean carpet and (relatively) dustless everything else. Once I get the afghan out of the dryer and sprawled over the couch things will look more "normal."

I guess it was the rainy day that brought on this strange behavior. I couldn't attack dewberries so I went after the dust bunnies.



And for a tour of the Audbon Zoo--accompanied by Meters singing "They All Axed for You"--take this link. It's posted on John's journal for April 9..